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  Mary Curtis Ratcliff

  Workshop led by

  After studying sculpture at the Rhode Island School of Design and cofounding the video collective Videofreex in New York, Mary Curtis Ratcliff moved to the Bay Area, where she makes sculpture and mixe

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  Carl Coleman

  Reading led by

  Carl Coleman, librarian, West Contra Costa Unified School District

In Conversation

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  Adrianne Finelli

  Adrianne Finelli is an artist and curator and the media technology specialist in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley.
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  Jon Shibata

  Jon Shibata is BAMPFA’s film archivist.
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  Pamela Vadakan

  Pamela Vadakan is the director of California Revealed, a California State Library initiative that helps cultural heritage organizations digitize, preserve, and provide online access to materials docum

Introduction

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  Julia Irwin

  Julia Irwin is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Media at UC Berkeley.
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  Linda C. Zhang

  Linda C. Zhang is an assistant professor of film in the Art & Media Studies program at Fulbright University Vietnam.

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  Soraya Tlatli

  Introduction

  Soraya Tlatli is associate professor, Department of French, UC Berkeley, and a specialist on Francophone literature from North Africa, as well as colonial and postcolonial historiography.

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  Joel Coen

  Introduction
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  Judith Rosenberg

  On Piano

In Conversation

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  Joel Coen
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  Frances McDormand
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  Eileen Jones

  Eileen Jones is a film critic at Jacobin magazine and taught film for many years at UC Berkeley. She is the author of Filmsuck, USA and has a podcast called Filmsuck.

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  Joel Coen

  Introduction

In Conversation

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  Joel Coen
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  Timothy Hampton

  Timothy Hampton holds the Aldo Scaglione and Marie M. Burns Distinguished Professorship and is former director of the Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley.

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  Joel Coen

  Introduction

In Conversation

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  Joel Coen
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  Mark Danner

  Mark Danner has written about war and politics for three decades for The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and other publications and is the author of The Massacre at El Mozote and five other

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  Joel Coen

  Introduction

In Conversation

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  Joel Coen
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  Eric Karpeles

  Painter and writer Eric Karpeles explores the relationship between visual and verbal culture in such books as Paintings in Proust and Almost Nothing: The 20th Century Art and Life of Józef Czapski.

In Conversation

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  Frances McDormand

  Frances McDormand is a producer and member of the cast of Women Talking.
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  Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

  Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers is an associate professor of History at UC Berkeley, where she specializes in African American history, women’s and gender history, and the history of American slavery.
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  Naima Karczmar

  Naima Karczmar is a PhD candidate in English and Critical Theory at UC Berkeley, where she works on racial epistemologies of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.